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West’s ‘alternate universe’

- E.R. Shipp, a Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, is the journalist in residence at Morgan State University's School of Global Journalism and Communicat­ion. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Email: ershipp201­7@gmail.com.

president was clemency of Larry Hoover, a founder of a murderous Chicago street gang who is serving six life sentences in a maximum security federal prison. He has been convicted on homicide and drug charges, but Mr. West assured the president that Mr. Hoover is incarcerat­ed “for basically an economic crime.”

The president has a strange mutual admiration society, starting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un (“We fell in love. He wrote me beautiful letters,” the president says in his stump speech.) and including Mr. West and his wife, Kim Kardasian West.

Since he eschews more establishm­ent black opinion leaders, I have some suggestion­s if he wants popular, but sensible, black advisers. He might try a Luvvie Ajayi, who pens the popular Awesomely Luvvie blog, or he might consult with any of the Very Smart Brothas.

But that makes too much sense. That’s probably why the president prefers the “alternate universe” of Kanye West.

 ?? POOL/GETTY IMAGES ?? Rapper Kanye West hugs U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval office of the White House on Oct. 11.
POOL/GETTY IMAGES Rapper Kanye West hugs U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval office of the White House on Oct. 11.

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